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An Irish Welcome

Céad Míle Fáilte friend and rover ... Wherever you come from and whosoever you may be.That's an Irish greeting and it means you are welcome a thousand times over.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Friends ...

Dear Lord,Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am,and keep ever burning before my vagrant* steps the kindly light of hope...And though I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet.And may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.

* A vagrant, is a word dated to the 15th century and is one who has no established place of residence and wanders idly from place to place without a visible means of support. In the context of this Irish blessing, it is a spiritual wandering and not necessarily implying a physical.